From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Sat May 16 1998 - 19:09:33 EDT
On Sat, 16 May 1998 09:49:26 -0500, shelby_at_netten.net wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>Thank you Paul for your reponse. I purchased my IBM TP760ED second hand,
>no manuals, no disks, but it is a great machine.
>
No problem.
>It has 48 meg of Ram, removable-interchangeable CD Rom drive with floppy
>drive.
That's a nice configuration.
>
>I registered it on the IBM site and received the stat sheet that it
>originally had a 1.2 Gig hard drive. I have no idea when it was originally
>purchased or if it is still in warranty.
>
Check with IBM. It might have a few months left on it.
>It has a 750 meg hard drive and I am trying to conserve space until I can
>find out the particulars of purchasing a 2nd hard drive (? don't know if
>this is possible? machine-wise?)
>
Yeah, should be. Since 750MB is EIDE, you should be able to add one that's several gigs with
no problem. I'm not sure about 3 GB or higher, but therorectically it should be possible.
>With space conservation in mind, I note the following programs and wonder
>if any of them can be safely deleted. In other words what is their function?
>
See below.
>
>Olicom
Probably a network card.
>DVP
>Factory
Probably factory diagnostics.
>IBMPCI
Maybe a PCI configuration utility.
>IPFWIN (subdirectory 760e-USs1.inf) need to know how to read file,
>possibly convert to Word or ???) (opening file in WPad just gives computer
>language codes/squares, etc.)
This needs IPFWIN.EXE. I have the 16 bit version so you can view OS/2 *.inf files.
Also, would you be able to possibly send the file along (it is the 760 Online Owner's Manual)
to my email address?
>Reachout
>Welcome
This tells about your preinstalled software I think when you power on your computer after taking it out
of the box. Or it tells about using your ThinkPad ergonomically.
>WIMAGE
>WNETFIN- Netfinity Ver 3.06
>
System information utility.
>I have a ThinkPad Information file that contains Thinkpad User's guide, but
>receive a message "need disk."
>
>I have a desktop PC, and just want to use laptop when I travel, so I don't
>need programs/software that I will never use.
>
What OS came on the machine?
>These questions are probably so elementary that the response would probably
>bore 99% of your readers, so feel free to reply to my e-mail address.
>
So would I fall into the 1% that likes answering these questions? :*)
-- Paul Khoury | <pkhoury_at_loop.com> | Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS Check out the ThinkPad Assistant 24/7 @ http://warped.cswnet.com/~pkhoury/index.html Proudly running OS/2 Warp 3/4 and Sun Solaris 2.4
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